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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Therefore, the problem of the preppie is living at Harvard by "the hacker values of getting along while all around are people whose main pleasure in life is people whose main pleasure in life is getting ahead...
...Academy will usually meet in small discussion groups, avoiding large-scale conventions and conferences. They hope to publish a journal of translations and reports of current research. Scheffier said that this journal would be the "main vehicle by which the Academy will make its views known to the public." He added that when pressing educational problems do arise, the Academy might form special sub-groups to determine policy on these specific issues...
Dean Watson does what he pleases with the remaining 30 per cent of the applications. Although he takes into account the students' choices, his main objective is to assure a balance of different types of people in each House...
Nkrumah's main worry was a rebellion of another kind. To promote his sagging pretensions as Africa's leader, he has invited the heads of all African states to a giant pan-African summit conference in September-and is pouring more than $4,000,000 into a project called "Job 600," a complex of halls and theaters being built in Accra to accommodate the conference. But his reputation for subversion has put him in such bad odor that many moderate Africans now threaten to boycott the summit...
...Boston demonstration was part of a series that took place in New York. Detroit, San Francisco, England, and Nigeria. In New York, 500 demonstrators gathered outside the main entrance of the Chase Manhattan Bank while 44 others were arrested for blocking one of the exits. When police tried to remove them, the picketers went limp and had to be dragged away...